Strasburgo: Risoluzione dell’Assemblea del Consiglio d’Europa sull’islam e l’islamofobia: sconsigliata la proibizione totale del velo integrale (burqa e niqab) (23 giugno 2010)

On 23rd June 2010 the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly unanimously passed a resolution saying all-out bans on full veils in public would deny a basic right to women who wanted to cover their faces. It qualified that right by saying veils, also known as burqas and niqabs, could be banned when public security or professional obligations required women to show their faces.

Very few women among Europe's estimated 15 million Muslims wear them, but some politicians have made them into a symbol for all problems in assimilating some Muslims into European society. France, Belgium and Spain are considering a ban on full face veils in public and may outlaw them later this year.

The Assembly resolution said “a great majority of European Muslims share the principles at the basis of our societies” and deplored discrimination against them, including Switzerland's ban on minarets voted in a referendum last November. At the same time, it called on Muslims in Europe “to abandon any traditional interpretations of Islam which deny gender equality and limit women's rights … Women are equal to men in all respects and must be treated accordingly.” The veiling tradition “could be a threat to women's dignity and freedom” and “no woman should be compelled to wear religious apparel by her community or family,” it said.

The Council's resolution has no legal weight against national laws.

(Fonte: Reuters; Council of Europe website)

in OLIR.it:

:: Dossier Velo islamico

:: Risoluzione 23 giugno 2010, n. 1927, Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe
:: Raccomandazione 23 giugno 2010, n. 1743, Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe

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